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#542
I live in CT. Our newly-elected governor campaigned on goals of cabon reduction of 35% by 2030, 70% by 2040, and carbon-neutral by 2050. Goals well short of the GND, but that will not be achieved anyway.

One good example is CT law that prohibits the sale of Teslas. We have to go out-of-state to buy a Tesla. For 5 years this has come before the blue legislature, and they have not changed the law. Lip service to green economy; vote the way the auto dealer lobby tells them to.

Lamont can make Connecticut a Green New Deal state
 
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nwdiver said:
Step 1 of planning is setting goals. So you want to go from having no plan to step 5??? How about we start with step 1
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Yep, 2019 is a good time to start thinking about a plan. Should take a decade or so. Hillarycare and Romneycare took decades to become implemented as Obamacare.

It is just a big political joke - they have absolutely no intention of developing a plan, policy, or legislation to achieve the GND. None.

nwdiver said:
The Republicans had their chance and they decided on insanity.
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Agreed. So how does the Democrat plan differ?? Oh, that's right - no plan yet.
 
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#545
nwdiver said:
At least the Democrats have clearly established goals. Let's get to step 2. I keep asking and get no response....

WHAT. IS. A. BETTER. ALTERNATIVE?????

Time to stop wasting time and move forward with the green new deal.
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A better alternative would be a really really really REALLY big hairy audacious goal that has at least .1% chance of being achieved through a plan, policy and legislation.

An even better alternative would be one that has a 25% chance of being achieved.
 
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tes-s said:
A better alternative would be a really really really REALLY big hairy audacious goal that has at least .1% chance of being achieved through a plan, policy and legislation.
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We made 'The New Deal' happen. We went to the moon. We ramped up military production to save the world from fascism. This is easy if we stop with the pathetic sniveling.

Make it happen.


Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.


  • Whereas the October 2018 report entitled “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that—

    (1) human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century;

    (2) a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastructure;

    (3) global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—

    (A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;

    (B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;

    (C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;

    (D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;

    (E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and

    (F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and

    (4) global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will require—

    (A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from 2010 levels by 2030; and

    (B) net-zero global emissions by 2050;

  • Whereas, because the United States has historically been responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States must take a leading role in reducing emissions through economic transformation;

  • Whereas the United States is currently experiencing several related crises, with—

    (1) life expectancy declining while basic needs, such as clean air, clean water, healthy food, and adequate health care, housing, transportation, and education, are inaccessible to a significant portion of the United States population;

    (2) a 4-decade trend of wage stagnation, deindustrialization, and antilabor policies that has led to—

    (A) hourly wages overall stagnating since the 1970s despite increased worker productivity;

    (B) the third-worst level of socioeconomic mobility in the developed world before the Great Recession;

    (C) the erosion of the earning and bargaining power of workers in the United States; and

    (D) inadequate resources for public sector workers to confront the challenges of climate change at local, State, and Federal levels; and

    (3) the greatest income inequality since the 1920s, with—

    (A) the top 1 percent of earners accruing 91 percent of gains in the first few years of economic recovery after the Great Recession;

    (B) a large racial wealth divide amounting to a difference of 20 times more wealth between the average white family and the average black family; and

    (C) a gender earnings gap that results in women earning approximately 80 percent as much as men, at the median;

  • Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to in this preamble as “systemic injustices”) by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

  • Whereas, climate change constitutes a direct threat to the national security of the United States—

    (1) by impacting the economic, environmental, and social stability of countries and communities around the world; and

    (2) by acting as a threat multiplier;

  • Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during World War II and the New Deal created the greatest middle class that the United States has ever seen, but many members of frontline and vulnerable communities were excluded from many of the economic and societal benefits of those mobilizations; and

  • Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era is a historic opportunity—

    (1) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States;

    (2) to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States; and

    (3) to counteract systemic injustices: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—

(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal—

(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers;

(B) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States;

(C) to invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century;

(D) to secure for all people of the United States for generations to come—

(i) clean air and water;

(ii) climate and community resiliency;

(iii) healthy food;

(iv) access to nature; and

(v) a sustainable environment; and

(E) to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal goals”) should be accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal mobilization”) that will require the following goals and projects—

(A) building resiliency against climate change-related disasters, such as extreme weather, including by leveraging funding and providing investments for community-defined projects and strategies;

(B) repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in the United States, including—

(i) by eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions as much as technologically feasible;

(ii) by guaranteeing universal access to clean water;

(iii) by reducing the risks posed by climate impacts; and

(iv) by ensuring that any infrastructure bill considered by Congress addresses climate change;

(C) meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources, including—

(i) by dramatically expanding and upgrading renewable power sources; and

(ii) by deploying new capacity;

(D) building or upgrading to energy-efficient, distributed, and “smart” power grids, and ensuring affordable access to electricity;

(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification;

(F) spurring massive growth in clean manufacturing in the United States and removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and industry as much as is technologically feasible, including by expanding renewable energy manufacturing and investing in existing manufacturing and industry;

(G) working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible, including—

(i) by supporting family farming;

(ii) by investing in sustainable farming and land use practices that increase soil health; and

(iii) by building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food;

(H) overhauling transportation systems in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as much as is technologically feasible, including through investment in—

(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing;

(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transit; and

(iii) high-speed rail;

(I) mitigating and managing the long-term adverse health, economic, and other effects of pollution and climate change, including by providing funding for community-defined projects and strategies;

(J) removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and reducing pollution by restoring natural ecosystems through proven low-tech solutions that increase soil carbon storage, such as land preservation and afforestation;

(K) restoring and protecting threatened, endangered, and fragile ecosystems through locally appropriate and science-based projects that enhance biodiversity and support climate resiliency;

(L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites, ensuring economic development and sustainability on those sites;

(M) identifying other emission and pollution sources and creating solutions to remove them; and

(N) promoting the international exchange of technology, expertise, products, funding, and services, with the aim of making the United States the international leader on climate action, and to help other countries achieve a Green New Deal;

(3) a Green New Deal must be developed through transparent and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; and

(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the following goals and projects—

(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment, adequate capital (including through community grants, public banks, and other public financing), technical expertise, supporting policies, and other forms of assistance to communities, organizations, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal mobilization;

(B) ensuring that the Federal Government takes into account the complete environmental and social costs and impacts of emissions through—

(i) existing laws;

(ii) new policies and programs; and

(iii) ensuring that frontline and vulnerable communities shall not be adversely affected;

(C) providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States, with a focus on frontline and vulnerable communities, so that all people of the United States may be full and equal participants in the Green New Deal mobilization;

(D) making public investments in the research and development of new clean and renewable energy technologies and industries;

(E) directing investments to spur economic development, deepen and diversify industry and business in local and regional economies, and build wealth and community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality job creation and economic, social, and environmental benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities, and deindustrialized communities, that may otherwise struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas intensive industries;

(F) ensuring the use of democratic and participatory processes that are inclusive of and led by frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to plan, implement, and administer the Green New Deal mobilization at the local level;

(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers training and advancement opportunities, and guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers affected by the transition;

(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;

(I) strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;

(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and hour standards across all employers, industries, and sectors;

(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and environmental protections—

(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and pollution overseas; and

(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the United States;

(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans are protected and that eminent domain is not abused;

(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples;

(N) ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by domestic or international monopolies; and

(O) providing all people of the United States with—

(i) high-quality health care;

(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;

(iii) economic security; and

(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and access to nature.
 
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#549
nwdiver said:
We made 'The New Deal' happen. We went to the moon. We ramped up military production to save the world from fascism.
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All child's play in comparison, and happened with the support of most of the nation. Last count I saw GND has 68 co-sponsors in the House and 11 in the Senate.
SageBrush said:
That is a joke -- right ?

Or are you saying that you had your head stuck in a smelly crevice for the past 15 years and just now you are trying to get used to the bright light ?
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No joke, and this is not about me. It is about the GND and why there is no plan - because the Democrats and Republicans have had their heads stuck in a smelly crevice for the past 15 years. Just now they are starting to talk about goals (no vote on that yet), and then they'll start to talk about a plan, then they'll start to talk about policy, and then they'll start to talk about legislation.

The new deal hit the ground running when FDR took office in 1933, with major legislation passed in the first months. The Democrats have 18 months to figure out how to win the White House, a super-majority in the Senate, keep the House; have consensus among themselves, and legislation ready to go two years from now.

California high-speed rail is a great test. Plan created and approved by voters in 2008, 11 years ago. Looks to me like it has another 9 years to go, if they really work at it. So 20 years (if all goes well) for a short rail line in a solid blue state approved by the voters in a referendum.

Have not heard ideas on farting cows, how to get to Hawaii without airplanes, or how to transition skills to the new economy from industries that will be shuttered.

Ultimately, I think this is going to help Republicans. It is so much easier to poke holes at something than get people to buy in to it.

The people know there are not enough rich people to pay for all this - and the burden will fall mostly on them. They have to know it will be a good deal for them - and that is not coming across. France is a good example - the people said NO! Americans are smart enough to figure it out too.

Finally, an American-go-it-alone policy will not save the planet. It is one planet, and we produce about 16% of the GHG emissions. Reducing GHG emissions by 16% will not save the planet. Just like the US did not save the world in WWII without a little help.
 
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#550
tes-s said:
No joke, and this is not about me.
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If you "think" that Repukes and Dems have understood climate change and the needed response similarly then your head is still in the crevice and you are delusional from the methane.

As recently as GWB the standard Repuke message was that global warming was uncertain and in any event not human related. That has gotten worse under the Chump in chief who says AGW is a hoax and Coal is king.
 
#551
tes-s said:
This climate change thing snuck up on us so damned quickly - no way anyone could have any actual policy or legislative proposals ready to go.

That is why the GND is politics and nothing more. If there were anyone serious about addressing climate change, they would have policy and legislation at the ready. Can't be at the "resolution phase" and think it is anything but politics. A simple thing like the ACA went into effect 4 years after President Obama took office. The ACA was child's play compared to the GND, and it was passed when one party had full control of the government - the White House, House, and super-majority in the Senate.

Nothing will happen before the election, and I see nothing that indicates the GND supporters will gain that control of the government in 2020. If they do and it takes 4 years to begin implementation that would leave 6 years for a 100% transition off fossil fuels, and transition jobs from oil to green energy.

AOC got it right - the GND is a Green New Dream. Nothing wrong with dreaming, but dreaming is not going to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030. Dreamers are great - but we need policy makers and legislators to get something done.
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I think the Democrats have it right. They realize that the Republicans will block GND until at least 2021. They are starting now to put plans in place to be ready to go as soon as possible.
 
#552
nwdiver said:
We made 'The New Deal' happen. We went to the moon. We ramped up military production to save the world from fascism. This is easy if we stop with the pathetic sniveling.

Make it happen.


Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.


  • Whereas the October 2018 report entitled “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that—

    (1) human activity is the dominant cause of observed climate change over the past century;

    (2) a changing climate is causing sea levels to rise and an increase in wildfires, severe storms, droughts, and other extreme weather events that threaten human life, healthy communities, and critical infrastructure;

    (3) global warming at or above 2 degrees Celsius beyond preindustrialized levels will cause—

    (A) mass migration from the regions most affected by climate change;

    (B) more than $500,000,000,000 in lost annual economic output in the United States by the year 2100;

    (C) wildfires that, by 2050, will annually burn at least twice as much forest area in the western United States than was typically burned by wildfires in the years preceding 2019;

    (D) a loss of more than 99 percent of all coral reefs on Earth;

    (E) more than 350,000,000 more people to be exposed globally to deadly heat stress by 2050; and

    (F) a risk of damage to $1,000,000,000,000 of public infrastructure and coastal real estate in the United States; and

    (4) global temperatures must be kept below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrialized levels to avoid the most severe impacts of a changing climate, which will require—

    (A) global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from human sources of 40 to 60 percent from 2010 levels by 2030; and

    (B) net-zero global emissions by 2050;

  • Whereas, because the United States has historically been responsible for a disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions, having emitted 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions through 2014, and has a high technological capacity, the United States must take a leading role in reducing emissions through economic transformation;

  • Whereas the United States is currently experiencing several related crises, with—

    (1) life expectancy declining while basic needs, such as clean air, clean water, healthy food, and adequate health care, housing, transportation, and education, are inaccessible to a significant portion of the United States population;

    (2) a 4-decade trend of wage stagnation, deindustrialization, and antilabor policies that has led to—

    (A) hourly wages overall stagnating since the 1970s despite increased worker productivity;

    (B) the third-worst level of socioeconomic mobility in the developed world before the Great Recession;

    (C) the erosion of the earning and bargaining power of workers in the United States; and

    (D) inadequate resources for public sector workers to confront the challenges of climate change at local, State, and Federal levels; and

    (3) the greatest income inequality since the 1920s, with—

    (A) the top 1 percent of earners accruing 91 percent of gains in the first few years of economic recovery after the Great Recession;

    (B) a large racial wealth divide amounting to a difference of 20 times more wealth between the average white family and the average black family; and

    (C) a gender earnings gap that results in women earning approximately 80 percent as much as men, at the median;

  • Whereas climate change, pollution, and environmental destruction have exacerbated systemic racial, regional, social, environmental, and economic injustices (referred to in this preamble as “systemic injustices”) by disproportionately affecting indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this preamble as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

  • Whereas, climate change constitutes a direct threat to the national security of the United States—

    (1) by impacting the economic, environmental, and social stability of countries and communities around the world; and

    (2) by acting as a threat multiplier;

  • Whereas the Federal Government-led mobilizations during World War II and the New Deal created the greatest middle class that the United States has ever seen, but many members of frontline and vulnerable communities were excluded from many of the economic and societal benefits of those mobilizations; and

  • Whereas the House of Representatives recognizes that a new national, social, industrial, and economic mobilization on a scale not seen since World War II and the New Deal era is a historic opportunity—

    (1) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs in the United States;

    (2) to provide unprecedented levels of prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States; and

    (3) to counteract systemic injustices: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that—

(1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal—

(A) to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities and workers;

(B) to create millions of good, high-wage jobs and ensure prosperity and economic security for all people of the United States;

(C) to invest in the infrastructure and industry of the United States to sustainably meet the challenges of the 21st century;

(D) to secure for all people of the United States for generations to come—

(i) clean air and water;

(ii) climate and community resiliency;

(iii) healthy food;

(iv) access to nature; and

(v) a sustainable environment; and

(E) to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth (referred to in this resolution as “frontline and vulnerable communities”);

(2) the goals described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (1) (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal goals”) should be accomplished through a 10-year national mobilization (referred to in this resolution as the “Green New Deal mobilization”) that will require the following goals and projects—

(A) building resiliency against climate change-related disasters, such as extreme weather, including by leveraging funding and providing investments for community-defined projects and strategies;

(B) repairing and upgrading the infrastructure in the United States, including—

(i) by eliminating pollution and greenhouse gas emissions as much as technologically feasible;

(ii) by guaranteeing universal access to clean water;

(iii) by reducing the risks posed by climate impacts; and

(iv) by ensuring that any infrastructure bill considered by Congress addresses climate change;

(C) meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources, including—

(i) by dramatically expanding and upgrading renewable power sources; and

(ii) by deploying new capacity;

(D) building or upgrading to energy-efficient, distributed, and “smart” power grids, and ensuring affordable access to electricity;

(E) upgrading all existing buildings in the United States and building new buildings to achieve maximum energy efficiency, water efficiency, safety, affordability, comfort, and durability, including through electrification;

(F) spurring massive growth in clean manufacturing in the United States and removing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing and industry as much as is technologically feasible, including by expanding renewable energy manufacturing and investing in existing manufacturing and industry;

(G) working collaboratively with farmers and ranchers in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector as much as is technologically feasible, including—

(i) by supporting family farming;

(ii) by investing in sustainable farming and land use practices that increase soil health; and

(iii) by building a more sustainable food system that ensures universal access to healthy food;

(H) overhauling transportation systems in the United States to remove pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as much as is technologically feasible, including through investment in—

(i) zero-emission vehicle infrastructure and manufacturing;

(ii) clean, affordable, and accessible public transit; and

(iii) high-speed rail;

(I) mitigating and managing the long-term adverse health, economic, and other effects of pollution and climate change, including by providing funding for community-defined projects and strategies;

(J) removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and reducing pollution by restoring natural ecosystems through proven low-tech solutions that increase soil carbon storage, such as land preservation and afforestation;

(K) restoring and protecting threatened, endangered, and fragile ecosystems through locally appropriate and science-based projects that enhance biodiversity and support climate resiliency;

(L) cleaning up existing hazardous waste and abandoned sites, ensuring economic development and sustainability on those sites;

(M) identifying other emission and pollution sources and creating solutions to remove them; and

(N) promoting the international exchange of technology, expertise, products, funding, and services, with the aim of making the United States the international leader on climate action, and to help other countries achieve a Green New Deal;

(3) a Green New Deal must be developed through transparent and inclusive consultation, collaboration, and partnership with frontline and vulnerable communities, labor unions, worker cooperatives, civil society groups, academia, and businesses; and

(4) to achieve the Green New Deal goals and mobilization, a Green New Deal will require the following goals and projects—

(A) providing and leveraging, in a way that ensures that the public receives appropriate ownership stakes and returns on investment, adequate capital (including through community grants, public banks, and other public financing), technical expertise, supporting policies, and other forms of assistance to communities, organizations, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and businesses working on the Green New Deal mobilization;

(B) ensuring that the Federal Government takes into account the complete environmental and social costs and impacts of emissions through—

(i) existing laws;

(ii) new policies and programs; and

(iii) ensuring that frontline and vulnerable communities shall not be adversely affected;

(C) providing resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education, to all people of the United States, with a focus on frontline and vulnerable communities, so that all people of the United States may be full and equal participants in the Green New Deal mobilization;

(D) making public investments in the research and development of new clean and renewable energy technologies and industries;

(E) directing investments to spur economic development, deepen and diversify industry and business in local and regional economies, and build wealth and community ownership, while prioritizing high-quality job creation and economic, social, and environmental benefits in frontline and vulnerable communities, and deindustrialized communities, that may otherwise struggle with the transition away from greenhouse gas intensive industries;

(F) ensuring the use of democratic and participatory processes that are inclusive of and led by frontline and vulnerable communities and workers to plan, implement, and administer the Green New Deal mobilization at the local level;

(G) ensuring that the Green New Deal mobilization creates high-quality union jobs that pay prevailing wages, hires local workers, offers training and advancement opportunities, and guarantees wage and benefit parity for workers affected by the transition;

(H) guaranteeing a job with a family-sustaining wage, adequate family and medical leave, paid vacations, and retirement security to all people of the United States;

(I) strengthening and protecting the right of all workers to organize, unionize, and collectively bargain free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment;

(J) strengthening and enforcing labor, workplace health and safety, antidiscrimination, and wage and hour standards across all employers, industries, and sectors;

(K) enacting and enforcing trade rules, procurement standards, and border adjustments with strong labor and environmental protections—

(i) to stop the transfer of jobs and pollution overseas; and

(ii) to grow domestic manufacturing in the United States;

(L) ensuring that public lands, waters, and oceans are protected and that eminent domain is not abused;

(M) obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples;

(N) ensuring a commercial environment where every businessperson is free from unfair competition and domination by domestic or international monopolies; and

(O) providing all people of the United States with—

(i) high-quality health care;

(ii) affordable, safe, and adequate housing;

(iii) economic security; and

(iv) clean water, clean air, healthy and affordable food, and access to nature.
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Looks like a good plan to me.
Dems have two years to translate that into legislation.
 
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ohmman said:
This is possibly the most ridiculous statement ever posted on TMC, which is why I'm assuming your posts are sarcasm and satire.
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Interesting to see that this man warned Congress in 1984 about climate change.
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
In in his 1984 address, Broecker said the buildup of greenhouse gases warranted a “bold, new national effort aimed at understanding the operation of the realms of the atmosphere, oceans, ice and terrestrial biosphere”.

Broecker said that by dumping into the atmosphere huge amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, “we are conducting an experiment that could have devastating effects”.
 
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mspohr said:
Interesting to see that this man warned Congress in 1984 about climate change.
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
Climate change science pioneer Wallace Smith Broecker dies
In in his 1984 address, Broecker said the buildup of greenhouse gases warranted a “bold, new national effort aimed at understanding the operation of the realms of the atmosphere, oceans, ice and terrestrial biosphere”.

Broecker said that by dumping into the atmosphere huge amounts of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, “we are conducting an experiment that could have devastating effects”.
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Ever since Arrhenius the basic physics have been known. The rest is just details of how fast and how bad. I use 15 years as a marker for when the science reached lay-people like me. From that time it has just become an exercise in politics, special interests, money, and ideological stupidity.

Incidentally, in the latest poll on climate change and AGW only 13% of self-declared Repukes acknowledge that climate change is anthropogenic.
 
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